dell inspiron 20 3043 Bios Password

[DDOking]

Ok so get this a friend of mine's co worker has a dell inspiron 20 3043 all in one computer and the person who was on it last was drunk and put a BIOS password on it and now they can't get the thing to boot

 

when my friend who asked me to figure it out we didn't think it was a BIOS password that a drunk put in so yaaaa I'm SOL as to fix this problem the person as tried everything they can think of to get pass the password but to no evail so she asked my friend if he knew anyone and well I'm ok with computers (i'm mainly on the software side either way as it is but I know my way around a computer case) But the BIOS is the thing I stay away from.

 

anyway ya

here is a pic they sent on the screen they get stuck on..

 

 

 

sooo yaaaa I can think of 4 ways of fixing this.

 

1. brute forcing the password

2. a linux based reset (no clue if that would work)

3. take the hard drive out and slap into a similar computer or just get a adapter 

4 Buy a new computer all to gether and just get rid of it

 

but ya as you can see its worse than what I thought it was,

 

again its a Dell inspiron 20 3043 All in One 

 

any help fixing this issue would be great thanks in advance

[techguru]

thats a hard drive password

thats alot harder to remove

if theres nothing important on the drive

i suggest scrapping it

and buying a new drive

[techguru]

will it get to the bios without the hdd plugged in?

[sof006]

Three words - Ultimate Boot CD (Hint: Google this)

 

Can't say much else...

[DDOking]

I'll update this when I get a hold of my friend again sense they are at work and said work is driving people around so I don't know when I will talk to them again  but I sent a message to them over skype with the sugestions

[zanthros]

Hirens boot cd has possible tools to help with this as well........

[DDOking]

well looks like the women is having Dell look into it sense its under warranty I'll keep this updated as I get information